I would venture a prophecy regarding that great date, August
12th. It is that more very young birds will be found on the moors than most sportsmen will remember. I have never known birds continue nesting so late in the year in the South ; and in some Scottish moors the first clutches were destroyed to an egg by untoward frosts. As many as twenty- . one degrees were registered in the last week of April, and some birds continued for an unconscionable time—poor things—in sitting on eggs that lost their fertility. On the other hand, had as the weather appears to have been, the later broods—at ‘. any rate of partridges:–have proved exceptionally strong and healthy. It may be called is healthy year among animals, as more obviously among our garden crops. Did anyone ever see the foliage of roses, or indeed the blooms, quite so fre'sh and full ? -
W. BEACH THOMAS..
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